Unanchored

Unanchored Alternative Domains for Generation Now

Alexander Angeline

Thesis 2017

Unanchored

A thesis presented to the Undergraduate Faculty of The NewSchool of Architecture & Design By: Alexander Angeline June 2017 San Diego, CA In partial fulfillment of requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Architecture

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Bachelor of Architecture NewSchool of Architecture & Design, San Diego, CA First Edition, 2017 Manufactured in the United States of America

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Unanchored alternative domains for generation now

A Thesis Presented to the Undergraduate Faculty of The Newschool of Architecture & Design By: Alexander Angeline

Undergraduate Chair

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Michael Stepner

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Jeremy Joyce

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Tom Mulica

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Acknowledgments

Dedicated to all of those whom I have crossed paths with during my studies here in San Diego, for you have influenced me in ways unimaginable. Especially to my mother and father, for encouraging and supporting me throughout this invaluable investment. This is just the beginning.

Also a great deal of gratitude goes to: Jeremy Joyce, Thesis Advisor Tom Mulica, Book Advisor Chuck Miller Mahyar Mostafavy

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Abstract

The new lifestyles created by technology are requiring a new ethos for dwelling in cities. The historical ideologies of domestic space, were formed upon the habitual nature of life: the home served as a respite from the monotonous production of labor. However, domestic space has managed to neutralize the modern workplace through the familiarity and dissemination of casual spaces and everyday objects. The lines between work and home are blurred, labor is increased, and overall productivity rises.

As domesticities transform into platforms for work and life, there must be further exploration of the ideologies of contemporary domestic environments and the natures by which they aggregate. Architecture historically has provided the spatial definition for home and work place, but now that these environments are so closely correlated, it must undo the traditional or offer a new spatial realm. The synthesis of work and life has brought a new understanding of how one can dwell amongst others in shared living conditions.

By sharing the burdens of domestic life, the mundane tasks, housekeeping duties, and community needs are distributed evenly to allow for more freedom for the lifestyles and expression of each inhabitant.

Through the appropriation of the industrial warehouse, new opportunities for dwelling can form by creating individualized spaces that can be reshaped based on the economic or social demands of the digital work economy.

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Contents Introduction

Lifetimes of Labor

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Unanchored

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Home is Habitual

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Problem Statement

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Work and Labor Time line

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Thesis Statement

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The Wifi Worker

Research Methods 33

Individualism

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Pluralistic

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New Nomadism 48

The Unanchored Individual

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The Familiarity of Home

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Shared Lifestyles

Implementation 56

A City of Transition

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A Building Block

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Appropriation

Alternative Domains 76

Genealogy of Units

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Individual Dwelling Unit

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Plan Aggregation

Future Present 86

Open Source Cities

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Introduction Un•an•chored | adjective —not fixed, free or liberated Synonyms: wandering, unsettled, wayward, itinerant, roaming, restless, nomadic

Unanchored is a lifestyle of modern individuals that choose to limit their physical ties to any one location by enabling a life of minimalism in return for the freedom of mobility and connectivity around the globe. The individual is adept at moving from city to city by leveraging their skills and technology to create work opportunities through these networks of similarly minded people. Rather than owning a physical asset such as a home or condominium with a traditional mortgage, the unanchored individual requires a platform of connected cities that act as nodes in a network. Among these nodes are multiple locations interspersed throughout the city that would allow users to choose a place to live and move when necessary. Work and home is now anywhere with a wifi connection, giving users the flexibility of choice and mobility with their lifestyles. The traditional separation of home and work no longer serves of value to the unanchored individual.

The architecture of these platforms can provide new alternatives to the way these modern individuals dwell in cities. What happens when your virtual address replaces your physical address? What kind of architectural response does this require? By dissecting the traditional archetype of domestic life, the nuclear family, the architecture can introduce alternative perceptions of inhabiting space through shared living experiences. This project intends to challenge the generic nature of dwelling through a new archetype that explores the idea of home as a platform for embracing mobility and modern nomadism through connected networks of cities.

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Problem Statement “The things you own end up owning you. It’s only after you lose everything that you’re free to do anything.”

– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Architecture remains as a static response to the fluid social living conditions of humans. The advancement of technology has far outpaced the advancement of domestic space. The need for flexibility is more prevalent than ever, and users are finding the traditional characteristics of home to be inhibiting for a mobile lifestyle. Rental agreements, mortgages, utilities, and other domestic requirements are becoming problematic for the lives that require more customizable time lines and accommodations. There is a need for autonomy and ease when it comes to living and moving from city to city.

In an era of the fastest and most powerful computing capabilities, the notion of dwelling is still subject to the archaic speeds of the past.

The fundamental ideologies of traditional dwellings are being questioned by the changing needs of a modern mobile society. Users are requiring less physical space but are seeking alternative and dynamic spatial configurations in return. The architecture is no longer designed for permanent dwelling, but serves the needs of a temporary inhabitant through the subdivision of the traditional room into elements of private and public space. This subdivision can accommodate the desired spatial qualities of the user by creating architectural components that form aggregations of space based on the time line of its users needs. The current landscape of temporary domains consist of ubiquitous and traditional architectural motifs that lack the flexibility and individuality that these users seek. The city must provoke new responses towards permanence and dwelling to fully embrace the unanchored nature of modern nomadic generations.

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Thesis Statement An exploration of access and flexibility of domestic space through architectural elements that can be inhabited and aggregated within industrial typologies.

This project seeks to counter the architecture of traditional domestic environments, for a new ethos of living and working throughout cities. The synthesis of work life and mobility has questioned the traditional domestic space as an outdated archetype for living these highly fluid lifestyles. With the rise of mobile technology and platforms for connectivity, the nature of dwelling can become more accessible and therefore more autonomous for the modern nomad.

Through the composition of pluralistic architectural elements, users can create domestic environments that are more attuned to the fluidity and time line of their own lifestyles. The impersonal nature of temporary accommodation space is replaced by interstitial moments of private, public, and shared living and working environments. By sharing the burdens of domestic life; the mundane tasks, housekeeping duties, and community needs are distributed evenly to allow for more freedom and expression of each individual. Through the appropriation of the industrial warehouse, these dwellings can be fabricated inexpensively, accumulate fast, and be adjusted based on the economic or social demands of the digital work economy.

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Home is Habitual A prĂŠcis of the relationship between work and life and how the evolution has influenced the domestic landscape

Labor and the ethos of the domestic environment have had a long correlation with the structuring and conditioning of human life. Such can be seen in daily routines such as rising early for work, committing a day’s worth of labor, then retreating to the characteristic domain of oneself, known as home. The human desire for stability coincides with the idea of house as an environment that repeals the daily influences of the outside world for a place of respite and resolution. Noted by Paolo Virno, humans are subject to a sensory overload that often compromises self preservation (Virno, 79) Domestic space became a way for users to occupy and claim ownership of space through these modes of ritualization and order.

For many generations, this ideology of home has provided families with a place to connect and embrace each other, separated from the influence of society. This understanding of home, as noted by Pier Vittorio Aureli, was understood not simply as a place of reproduction, but also as an ideological embodiment of the family as an estate (Aureli, 113) The domestic environment is the most common place of our existence. They are the stages for everyday life, and the backdrops of our social and physical patterns. Since life and work are now one, there is a critical need of architecture to redefine this insidious sphere, by restructuring the ideology of home as a resolve from the monotonous routine of labor. The question is how do we understand the future of housing through the new social conditions of the city? This time line seeks to outline a history and speculative future of the habitual modes of work and dwelling through the filter of an architectural perspective.

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Model T assembly line, c.1913

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The prefabricated housing proposal by Le Corbusier that would later come to inspire generations of cheap housing allover the world.

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A proposal by Ludwig Hilberseimer, which embodied the speed of innovation, labor, urban growth at the time.

Back-to-back houses, Leeds, West Yorkshire, c.1940

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Factory Housing

The stock market crash of 1929 marked the beginning of an era. Unemployment rose at an astonishing rate of 4,000 workers per week.

The 1930’s was a time of close relations with work and home.

Factory workers usually lived in affordable housing projects nearby.

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Open office plan c.1960

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An affordable housing project in St. Louis, MO, that was eventually demolished due to obscene crimes, corruption, and damages

The invention of the Cubicle created a new environment of productivity and ubiquity in the workplace

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“The American Dream�

The relationship between work and home was beginning to shift further apart from each other.

Ownership became a path to prosperity. The suburbanization of cities and advent of the automobile empowered people to travel farther from work and own homes.

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This typology becomes the most ubiquitous in US cities due to cheap rent and maximum spatial allocation

Companies begin to incorporate the domestic environment into the office by introducing various amenities and spacial configurations that mask the feeling of production and labor

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The Corporate Workaholic The worker has been engulfed in the corporate ecosystem, making it easier and effortless to spend more hours on labor and productivity, further displacing the necessity to be home

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Spiral Muse becomes the first shared office space to open in San Francisco

Airbnb is launched in San Francisco, this becomes a platform for sharing a bed, a room, or an entire house with anyone from anywhere

Airbnb home page

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The Wifi Worker Technology has given anyone with access to it the means to work and live in just about any location with a wifi connection

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Communal Villa: Proposal for a living/working space, 2015.

View of the inhabitable wall.

Inhabitable Wall Project by: DOGMA Year: 2015

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- A project that is symbolic of the social and political factors that influence the shared economy.

- Units become the framework for a domestic experience.

- Aggregation of units can create unique spatial relationships between its users.

- Construction and materiality is reflective of the DIY community and can be reflective of the individual.

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Like a Rolling Stone: Proposal for 33 Boarding Houses in London, 2016.

Inhabitable core Project by: DOGMA Year: 2016

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- The inhabitable core is an ideology extracted of the traditional domestic space, being that it serves the inhabitant for the sole purpose of dwelling.

- This concept takes the most fundamental aspects of the traditional domain and creates a compacted version that is suitable for dense urban infill projects.

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San Rocco #2 / The Even Covering of the Field The Endless Plan Project by: Sam Jacob Studio Year: 2015

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- A non-stop landscape of architecture.

- The walls, rooms, and corridors, are seamlessly blending their characteristics resulting in a neutral yet provocative plan.

- The ambiguity of the elements creates a field of architectural fragments.

- The architecture serves as a way finding tool for navigating space.

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Box | Live-Work Cooperative Recycling abandoned big box stores in North Houston.

Project by: Julcsi Futo Year: 2014

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- The generic scale of the domestic unit (3m x 3m) allows for streets and corridors to form around spaces for navigation and collaboration.

- The plan creates intimacy when needed, by dictating areas for dwelling and privacy.

- By rejecting the diversity of overall form, the interior spatial qualities become highly fluid and unexpected.

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Architectural ‘technotopias’ were prevalent in the post war era, signaling the future of a burgeoning social community, a global village emerging from the fragmentation of suburbia and the common orders of home.

The modern city dweller was supported and envisaged (by Le Corbusier) through projects like Maison Domino and Maison Voisin, a characterization following the futurists’ leitmotif. Progressive modernist expressed their distaste with the traditional models of house, heavily rooted into earth with thick foundations and vast weights of walls and materiality. This was the beginning of an architecture uprooting its programmed conditions of place and permanence.

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Villa Spatiale An architectural framework for the expansion of individualist driven urban developments.

Project by: Yona Friedman Year: 1964

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- A conceptual project for a live/ work city that democratized the architectural design to be chosen by the user.

- The multi-layered city would give freedom to the inhabitant, while allowing them to be a part of a dynamic urban fabric.

- The unconventional nature of the project was a direct questioning of the capitalistic and urban planning methodologies of the time.

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A Plan for Tokyo An urban plan for the Bay of Tokyo expansion.

Project by: Kenzo Tange Year: 1961

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- The Metabolists were notorious for large scale urban plans that proposed how futuristic cities could be imagined and designed.

- Mobility, urban structure, linear access, civil access, and infrastructure were all expressed through a vivid architectural language.

- This part to whole system was meant to be symbolic of the mass industrialization and technological future of cities to come.

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The Inhabitable Wall The Inhabitable Core

The Endless Plan of Spatial Fragments Generic Objects for Diverse Spaces

Democratic Design on an Urban Scale Multiplicity and Variance/ Part to Whole

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The Unanchored Individual The lifestyle values of unanchored individuals coincide with the virtues of a minimalist ideology. The traveler does not wish to be inhibited by the permanent natures of objects and domestic space. The user is more inclined to the flexible nature of minimalism, and usually only carries the most important objects that contribute to maintaining his/her nomadic lifestyle.

This usually includes around seven to thirteen objects, ranging from cellphones, laptops, clothing, jewelry, books, and other intimate objects.

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The Familiarity of Home One condition of the modern domestic landscape is the commodification of domestic life and the ability to assemble and disassemble a domestic environment. For example, the world of IKEA represents a fundamental critique on the domestic space through the questioning of its permanence and variability. With their effectiveness through cheap design, mass market appeal, and global access to products, they have transformed the domestic interior into a way of life that can be replaced every three to six months.

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A City of Transition San Diego: developed from the presence of the US navy in the early 20th century, today remains one of the most traveled to US cities for tourism, education, and conventions.

San Diego in particular is a city that is fairly young by urban standards, therefore is still questioning, experimenting, and developing its character as city of destination and substance. It experienced a high surge of growth due to the Navy and Military presence during World War II, which developed a majority of the city into industrial spaces. Fast forward to the present day, and San Diego is one of the most visited cities in America, receiving nearly 29.6 million tourists a year.

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A Building Block San Diego: developed from the presence of the US navy in the early 20th century, today remains one of the most traveled to US cities for tourism, education, and conventions.

The site is located in the Makers Quarter district of downtown. The building itself is called the Coliseum athletic center, which peaked in use from 1930-1970, from that point changing ownership a few times but only to be used for storage purposes. The Makers Quarter is undergoing a vast development , primarily focused the gentrification and adaptation of a new theme, one focused on luxury housing. The proposals seek to build market rate condominiums in hope that they attract a young diverse audience.

Unfortunately their desired audience will have trouble affording such prices. If the Makers Quarter intends to build a truly diverse and forward community, the developments need to stimulate the economy of San Diego on the ground level by creating new opportunities for people to move here and experiment with alternative work and lifestyles. The Coliseum provides this project with a template for that exact exploration.

Typological appropriation is a theory that attempts to adapt the Coliseum for the future of domestic autonomy, without faltering the integrity or envelope of the building, this concept seeks to rely solely on the architecture to house a city within a city. The programmatic conditioning that this space was once obliged to follow, no longer constitutes any one determination of opportunity and use. These industrial spaces can become a construction of social configurations by individual expression and organization of new programs. The infrastructural support that these inhabitable systems require is far less, creating the opportunity for the architecture to become experiential and free from monotony.

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Conclusion A synthesis of the project, based on the feedback received from the final defense and a personal account of the results

Critical Feedback The project was presented as an oral presentation that was accompanied by two scale models. The overall thoughts on the project were supportive and optimistic of the application theory. The critical feedback was focused on the adaptation of the existing structure to the newly proposed temporary communities. One of the main critical questions was focused on the central ring space of the Coliseum Building and the effectiveness of integrating the new concept within the old building structure. The way that these units cohabit amongst these industrial typologies could be further explored through various materiality and detailed studies of the configurations. The scale model of the Individual Dwelling Unit was perceived as a helpful instrument for visualizing these spaces. It was mentioned that even increasing the scale would provide more visual cues to what the experience of dwelling in these spaces would be like.

Overall Evaluation The concept of the project was presented in a way that everyone would understand. By introducing this project as an application for enabling mobile lifestyles through the medium of architecture, the jury was capable of understanding the problem being questioned and the reason for the proposed design. The investigation was backed up with real world examples of problems that are attributed to living highly connected and precarious lives from the disconnection with home that occurs when moving frequently from city to city. The future of this project will continue to investigate the historic ideology of traditional domestic space by further developing the spatial criteria for these modern communities, while continuing to investigate the necessities of a truly mobile inhabitant.

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London 51°30’26”N 0°7’39”W

Country: Region: Greater Area: Urban Area: Population Greater London: Urban London:

England Greater London 1,737.9 km2 1,572 km2

8,673,713 9,787,426

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Monthly Expense: $3,095 Internet Speed: 14 MBS Temporary Accomodation:

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Airbnb: $6,095/mo Hotel Room: $2,086/mo Co-Working Spaces: Spaces: 117 Cost: $260/mo

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Airbnb: $1,942/mo Hotel Room: $2,040/mo Co-Working Spaces: Spaces: 26 Cost: $199/mo

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4,944,332 2,099,451

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Airbnb: $1,342/mo Hotel Room: $1,040/mo Co-Working Spaces: Spaces: 14 Cost: $120/mo

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Model T Assembly Line. (2017). Retrieved from https://geekinc.ca/business-process-management-and-henry-ford/

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Hedges, N. (1970). “Make Life Worth Living”, terrace of back-to-back houses, Leeds, West Yorkshire, July 1970 © Nick Hedges / National Media Museum, Bradford.

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1960s Open office plan. Retrieved from https://note.taable.com/post/5D4/www. morganlovell.co.uk/articles/the-evolution-of-office-design

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1950 Suburban Home Owner. (2017). Retrieved from http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/10/4b/ba/104bba6748a4e724f5b26fa79f496b58.jpg

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Aerial view of a Texas suburb. Retrieved from https://www.shutterstock.com/da/ image-photo/aerial-view-suburb-bay-city-texas-6932557

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Suburban office park. Retrieved from https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/g8t7MdVPZNQLYFQF4YVXHsxFLpbwc-0nDzia6GwdDtrUeKIyTtQho3n2L8r387By67Is=s93

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Airbnb home page. Retrieved from http://getlevelten.com/blog/gretchen-voelker/ design-smarts-why-airbnb-does-it-right

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Like a Rolling Stone: Proposal for 33 Boarding Houses in London, 2016.. (2016).

Retrieved from http://www.dogma.name/pictures/17.jpg

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Jacobs, S. (2016). The Even Covering of a Field. Retrieved from http://www.samjacob.com/index.php/instproj/even-covering-of-the-field/

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Futo, J. (2014). Box | Live work cooperative | Houston. Retrieved from http://www. julcsifuto.com/#/box/

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Friedman, Y. (1964). Villa Spatiale. Retrieved from http://www.yonafriedman. nl/?page_id=78

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Tange, K. (1961). A Plan for Tokyo Bay. Retrieved from http://www.domusweb.it/ content/dam/domusweb/en/news/2011/05/03/metabolism-the-city-of-the-future/ rbig/big_331716_6047_metabolism_01.jpg

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Traveling. Retrieved from https://unsplash.com/search/traveler

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Wojcik, J. (2015). The Coliseum Athletic Center. Retrieved from http://sandiegodowntownnews.com/the-coliseum-a-local-boxing-landmark/

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Diagram, The Unanchored individuals with their essential belongings

3.50- 3.51

Diagram, domestic items on demand

3.52

Render, The shared spaces of the Unanchored users

4.55- 4.56

Site Diagrams, axonometric diagram of context, site plan of downtown San Diego

4.64- 4.65

Site Diagrams, axonometric diagram of context, site plan of downtown San Diego

4.66- 4.67

Diagrams, exploded axonometric diagram of existing structure, roof plan of existing building, elevation of existing building, (both including dimensions)

4.68 4.69- 4.71 4.72 5.76- 5.77

Site Plan, roof plan of interior courtyard intervention, along with context Diagrams, Top: active streets, adjacent industrial buildings, extending the sidewalk inside Bottom: walk up windows, interior court yard space, iconic cornerstone (interventions) Elevation, 45 degree angle Diagrams, axonometric genealogy of the individual domestic unit, plans of the genealogy with dimensions

5.78

Diagram, using the body for measurement, the truly inhabitable

5.79

Axonometric, the individual dwelling unit

5.80

Ground floor plan, the individual dwelling units arranged among the space

5.82

Section axonometric from below, the entire building

5.89

Axonometric plan, entire building along with immediate context

6.92- 6.97 6.108- 6.111

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Diagrams, information, site plans, depicting the growth of the unanchored dwelling space in cities looking to embrace modern fluid lifestyles Scale Models: 3D printed individual dwelling units, Entire completed building model

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Precedents

Ideology

Fordist Modes of Production

Post-fordism, and the immaterial production economy

Industrial typologies and subsequent housing for workers

Immaterial spaces for production as a network for cities

Potteries Thinkbelt vs. Modern immaterial production space

Countering the decline of industrial typologies with new dynamic space

The Metabolist, Yona Friedman, and Archigram

The traditional urban conditions of public/private and work/live are no longer relevant in modern society

A Simple Heart, Dogma

Users

Architecture

Uprootedness as a means for urban domestic laboratories

A frame work for potential models of production space, flexibile but specified

The knowledge/gig economy and lifestyle traits

An archetype of singular forms that can be reconceived based on economic changes

The value of social exchanges for the production of ideas, images, and knowledge

The potential for a variety of forms to originate from the individualisation of spaces to whole

Seeking frameworks for lifestyles of continuous mobility

The architecture is resolved as place, no longer a programmatic response to its material driven work

Social and physical fabric as idiosyncratic mutations amongst modern cities

Multiplicity of Domains

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2

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Figures 6.108- 6.109

3

4

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Built Scale Model

110

Figures 6.110- 6.111

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